Florian grosjean



UNITED STATES FLORIAN GROSJEAN PATENT OEFCE.

, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PROCESS OF MAKING IRON SPOONS.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FLORIAN GRosJEAN, of New York, in the county of NewYork and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Process forMaking Iron Spoons, which I have described in the following specicationand illustrated in its accompanying drawings with sufficient clearnessto enable competent and skillful workmen in the arts to which itpertains or is most nearly allied to use my invention.

In the construction of spoons it is well known that a much greaterthickness is required in the middle of the handle than at its end or theend of the bowl of the spoon. To give the proper proportion,each spoonseparately has been forged or hammered down to the required thinness atthe ends. The laborinvolved in this operation makes the spoons somewhatexpensive and amounts in the aggregate to a large item in the cost ofmanufacture.

M v process of making these spoons consists in first rolling a bar orplate of iron ot the proper width for the length of the spoons re`quired and thin it at its edges,with suiiicient substance in the middlefor the handle of the spoon, and then cutting out the spoons crosswiseof the bar or plate, after which they are bent into shape and the bowlformed by means of swages properly constructed for the purpose.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention, as follows:

Figure l is a plan of a remnant of'a bar or plate of iron rolled to therequired width to form the spoons, the end toward the bottom of the pagebeing shown as it would appear after a spoon had been cut from it.

Fig. 2 represents a piece of metal cut out to form a spoon, and is aplan of it. By a comparison of this figure with the one above the way inwhich the spoons are taken from the bar will be obvious.

Fig. 3 is an end view of the bar or plate from which the spoons are out.It will be observed by an inspection of this last figure that the edgesof the bar are much thinner than the middle, it being tapered from aboutthe place where the root ot' the bowl would come to the edge, each edgeof the bar being tapered or made thinner in the same way, thus givingless thickness in ihe broad part of the handle as Well as inthe bowl.For the purpose ot' economy in the working of the metal the bar isturned at each cui', so as to take the bowl of the spoon alternatelyfrom the opposite edges of the bar; or this necessity may be obviated bymaking the dies double, so as to cut two spoons at once. There may,however, be some objections to thislast arrangement which wouldinterfere with its practicability. After the pieces to form the spoonshave been cnt from the bar they are struck into shape by swages and theedges trimmed with a file or otherwise, when they are readyto befinished by the ordinary process of tin ning.

The spoons thus made have a much more uniform surface than thosemanutacturedin the ordinary Way, presentino; none ot the hammer-markswhich so d'isfigu'r'e the ordinary article, as no hammer is used, thebar being formed entirely by rollers, and While a much more neat andsmooth article is made by this process the expense of manufacture isthereby very greatly reduced.

Having thus fully described my said invention, I claim- The process ormode herein described ot' making iron spoons by first forming a bar orplate of iron tapered at the edges, as described and shown, andafterward cutting the spoons therefrom in the manner set forth.

F. GROSJ EAN.

Witnesses:

ISAAC H. How, THos. P. How.

